alt Hacker News76250, or 93/100. Native English speaker from London. Some of the last 10 words were seriously obscure.
Are accoutrement and ziggurat really English words? Accoutrement is even pronounced as French!
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melasadra • last Friday at 5:44 PM
Weirdly enough, these words would be known to some non-native speakers as they show up every now and then in video games.
goodpoint • yesterday at 10:43 AM
I did 78000 and I'm not a native English speaker.
stavros • last Friday at 3:40 PM
Depending on what you consider an "English" word, anywhere from 0% to 100% of words are English words. I've definitely seen accoutrement and ziggurat in English, and quite often.
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Those are both on the list of words I thought should have been in a category or two lower because I consider them both sufficiently widely used.